Candyland Man

This week the kid got interested in a boardgame called "Candyland."

I'm not sure if we had that one when we were kids. It's this board with all these different color spaces, and you choose a card, and then you go to the color that's on the card.

And there are spots where you can lose a turn if you step on a gumdrop or get stuck in the Cool Whip swamp or something. Or maybe you land on the jellybean rainbow, and you get to shoot ahead a certain number of spaces.

Pretty low key stuff for the most part.

But anyway, it occurred to me this could be a lot of fun as a drinking game.

Given all the fancy colors, maybe you'd want to stick with that theme and make it a drinking game where you drink an assortment of fancy tropical drinks.

In fact, if the kid continues to insist on playing this game every night before bed, I might just stash a bottle of Bacardi in my sock drawer and set up the blender on the nightstand.

Kurt "big daddy" True
14 july 2004